- rock
- 37 min
- 10 tracks
- Columbia
How Hard It Is is the fourth and final studio album by Big Brother and the Holding Company, released in August 1971. The track "Buried Alive in the Blues" was originally written by guest singer Nick Gravenites for Janis Joplin, who died before she could record her vocal. It was included as an instrumental by the Full Tilt Boogie Band on her final album Pearl, released the previous year.
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Spare, grave, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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Tracks
- 1How Hard It Is4:21
- 2You’ve Been Talkin’ ’Bout Me Baby3:25
- 3House on Fire3:55
- 4Black Widow Spider3:32
- 5Last Band on Side One1:55
- 6Nu Boogaloo Jam3:23
- 7Maui3:25
- 8Shine On5:24
- 9Buried Alive in the Blues3:57
- 10Promise Her Anything but Give Her Arpeggio3:53
10 tracks, 37 minutes.
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- Columbia
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
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- XW
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